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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Deborah Padgett, OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, June 20, 2025 During the plan covering Sols 4575-4576, Curiosity continued our investigation of mysterious boxwork structures on the shoulders of Mount Sharp. After a successful 56-meter drive (about 184 feet), Curiosity is nowContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4577-4579: Watch the Skies”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Collaborator and Senior Research Scientist at the University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Wednesday, June 18,  2025 Not only did our drive execute perfectly, Curiosity ended up in one of the safest, most stable parking spots of the whole mission. We often come intoContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4575-4576: Perfect Parking Spot”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will soon launch a one-of-a-kind instrument, called Arcstone, to improve the quality of data from Earth-viewing sensors in orbit. In this technology demonstration, the mission will measure sunlight reflected from the Moon— a technique called lunar calibration. Such measurements of lunar spectral reflectance can ultimately be used to setContinue reading “NASA Tech to Use Moonlight to Enhance Measurements from Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On June 11, NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) captured photos of the site where the ispace Mission 2 SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon (RESILIENCE) lunar lander experienced a hard landing on June 5, 2025, UTC. RESILIENCE was launched on Jan. 15 on a privately funded spacecraft. LRO’s right Narrow AngleContinue reading “NASA’s LRO Views ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 2 Moon Lander Impact Site”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This full-disk image from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite was captured at 7:45 a.m. EDT (11:45 UTC) and shows the Americas on June 21, 2012, the start of astronomical summer – in the Northern Hemisphere – that year. The first day of summer in 2025 is June 20; it is also theContinue reading “Summer Begins in Northern Hemisphere”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility vision involves the skies above the U.S. filled with new types of aircraft, including air taxis. But making that vision a reality involves ensuring that people will actually want to ride these aircraft – which is why NASA has been working to evaluate comfort, to seeContinue reading “NASA Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Studies Move Forward”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In the summer 2025 issue of the NASA History Office’s News & Notes newsletter, examples of leadership and critical decision-making in NASA’s history form the unifying theme. Among the topics discussed are NASA’s Shuttle-Centaur program, assessing donations to the NASA Archives, how the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting aContinue reading “NASA History News and Notes – Summer 2025”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY From Sunday, June 22 to Wednesday, July 2, two research aircraft will make a series of low-altitude atmospheric research flights near Philadelphia, Baltimore, and some Virginia cities, including Richmond, as well as over the Los Angeles Basin, Salton Sea, and Central Valley in California. Pilots will operate the aircraft atContinue reading “NASA Aircraft to Make Low-Altitude Flights in Mid-Atlantic, California”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is situated just 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). It is a member of the M94 galaxy group, which is near the Local Group ofContinue reading “Hubble Studies Small but Mighty Galaxy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center Earth planning date: Monday, June 16, 2025 Over the weekend Curiosity successfully wrapped up activities at the “Altadena” drill site and got back on the road. The approximately 48-meter drive (about 157 feet) was successful, and placed the roverContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4573-4574: Welcome to the Uyuni Quad”